Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-02-16
PROSPEROUS PARK CITY.
Prospects for a Big BOom-Among the
Mines in the Spring-General
Mining Notes.
Death Of James Caine, an Old-Time
Miner-AnOther Sad Death-The
Whitehead Group Looking Up.
Raiding the Girls-Church and School
WOrk-PersOnal Mention and
General Notes.
Correspondence of THE DEMOCRAT

The DAILY and Anchor roads were inn
passable Monday.
Mr.. j l.. Osborne left on Monday for a
weeks visit to the metropolis
NJ. Idleman OF Cheyenne, and NJ.
! COhn Of Ogden were in town Friday.
The Salt Lake train, due here at > 20
p. m, was four hours late Sunday.
G. p. Mason, OF the Utah and Montana
Machine Company, spent Saturday in the
Park.
Twenty feet OF snow lies in the gulches
around the Anchor mine and Bonanza
Flat.
James Thompson registered at the
Park City hotel, Sunday, as from Salt
Lake.
Mrs f. v Davis, primary teacher in
the Public School, is down sick with
lung trouble.
Mr. A. NJ. Grant went down to Zion on
Saturday morning Mr.. and Mrs. Grant
will make Salt Lake their home here
after.
Louis +. Bamberger, formerly of Bam-
berger Bros, OF Salt Lake City, has
| opened a clothing and notion store in the
Park.
Rev. Alex. Munroe came up Saturday
night and held the first OF series of re-
vival meetings Sunday evening in the
Congregational Church.
Two carloads of sampled ore await
shipment at Mackintosh's sampler, the
snow having drifted upon the track so
deep as to render it impossible to get the
cars out
On Monday, Joseph Dudler, proprietor
OF the California Brewery, received direct
from the mandatory 800 pound Mas
Ter Bahmann safe. 1t is of a new and
improved pattern, and fire and burglar
proof The purchase speaks well for Mr..
Dudlers business.
Eight names have been secured to-
ward establishing Il Temple of Honor
Lodge in the Park. Fifteen are required
to secure charter, and it is thought by
| the interested parties that the remaining
seven necessary names will soon be
secured and the lodge instituted.
Two houses OF ill-fame were raided by
the police Sunday night and eight OF the
inmates arrested, including En-. Davis,
the weIl-known proprietress OF such
houses. Seven OF the girls were fined
$2O apiece, while Il tax OF $50 was i'm
posed upon En-. Davis, the keeper of the
establishment.
Hay is selling at $l2 per ton in the
Park. Though tons upon tons are cut
yearly in the vicinity OF Snyderville,
there is not enough to supply the de-
mand. Already and the winter is not
half gone, hay is being shipped in from
kamas and surrounding settlements in
large quantities.
Milo II. Shurtliff has been elected AS
sistant Secretary OF the Anchor and Boss
Mining Companies. Mr.. Shurtliff has
held the position of stenographer for
Il. Z. Ferry for some time past and his
election to his new position is a compli
ment to his ability and a reward for ser
vices well and faithfully performed.
The Crescent shipped "a, 900 pounds of
tlrst-class ore last week There is no
possibility OF another shipment very soon.
Tor no communication can be had be-
tween the Park and the mine. For three |
days attempts have been made to reach |
the mine with the mail, but all have |
proved futile, the snow being so deep as
to render the roads impossible.
Interesting meetings were held in the
Methodist church Sunday morning and |
evening Rev. Geo. Il. Jayne preaching
the sermon at both services. Five new |
members We're received into the church
on probation, to be followed by others
next Sunday. Notwithstanding the
storm the Sunday school had an attend
ance OF seyenty-four. The average at
tendande OF the school is l25.
The Crescent is pushing ahead gradu-
ally, between eighty and ninety men
being kept constantly at work. Work
was commenced recently on the sinking
OF the winze, designed for working the
mine below the old workings, and at n
depth that will reveal its wealth or prove
1t to be nothing. The latter is almost
impossible, for everything goes to prove
That somewhere in the Crescent there is
something more than low-grade ore.
Hosting works are to he erected over the
Wine when it has reached the depth of
lOO feet, by means OF which all further
work will be conducted The progress of
this work and its result will be watched
with interest.
On Sunday night two deaths occurred.
one being the infant daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Martin Rickhard. The death of the
baby has brought to light case of sor-
row and restitution that appeals TO one
at once for sympathy and aid. Martin
Rlckhard has been out of work in the
Park for some time, and few weeks ago
lett Tor IlntiC in search OF something To
do, leaving his wife and two little ones in
destitute circumstances. Since then
she has heard nothing from him. and
does not know OF his whereabouts
Alone and in ill-health, the child's death
10 the mother has been Il sad blow, and
her case, indeed, is a pitiful one. Let
the good people OF the Park extend their
lId and sympathy TO Mrs. Rickhard in
her sad alIliction.
The other death was that Of James
anc, an old prospector and miner
known in almost every camp on the
cast. He has been in the Park from
rs infancy, and number OF times has
made his stake, " but whisky, the enemy
ii nearly all Old-timers, got the best Of
Jimmy, and at last, from dissipation
exposure and neglect, he succrimbed
passing away peacefully Sunday night
lie was at work upon his claims at Lake {
j lat when he took sick, and last Friday +
vas brought down to the Park and placnd
lnder the doctors care, but nothing that ]
'Ond be done could save him. He was S
'p-owncr IN number OF good claims near I
ne ontario and about the camp. These J
ne left to one Of his partners lie q
was buried Monday, the funeral being 8
argeIy attended by the old "yctcrang@ !
md miners.
In cOnyeT30liOn WltT Nh ~~-T,~- :
the owner of the Whitehead q
group Ol mines, consisting OF nine claims y
in /